Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Misery Quotient

.Let’s Take 5. Maybe 10.

“At a certain point, there’s a misery quotient
that results from immersing one’s self in the news, in the almost forensic
detail of the suffering, and I have to ask myself, ‘How does this affect my
life?’”

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